8th Baramati Conference Gets Off to a start - 1

The eighthBaramati Conference has just been inaugurated with the lighting of the traditional oil lamp with an introductory welcome note from Sharad Kulkarni, the Chairman of the Governing Council of VIIT. The Baramati conference is being co-organised by VIIT and Intel and is being held at Baramati from 23-26th March 2008.

The inaugural session is being moderated by Sharad Kulkarni, and has key note presentations from Subas Pani, Secretary, Planning Commission, Government of India, Jainder Singh, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Government of India, John Davies, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Intel World Ahead Programme, R Siva Kumar, Managing Director, Sales and Marketing, South Asia Intel.

Dr. Amol Goje, the Director of VIIT and the inspiring leader of the Baramati Initiative is looking forward to two days of exciting deliberations on "ICT for Communities - Scale and Economic Benefits" the running theme of the conference. "We expect to learn from the experts in the next two days, but also it is important for us to showcase practical examples of how things work on the ground".

Mr. Pani shared his experience of working in the Election Commission of India, the importance of project management, detailing and multi-lingual needs were reiterated.